What a marvelous idea. A "Citizen's Police Academy".
"...The press likes to think of itself as the fourth estate — the last check on government and law enforcement agencies. Often, when we write stories regarding the use of force, we do so with that mindset: The public always, has a right to know. I believe that has been the thought process, and the sense of responsibility, behind the many stories that have appeared in the press in Denver in recent years on excessive-force incidents and lawsuits involving the Denver Police Department.
The Denver media was not wrong to print and broadcast those stories. The public does have a right to know what is happening, particularly when what is happening involves agencies funded and lawsuits paid with tax dollars.
But we, as reporters, follow stories like those coming out of Denver over the last few years, as reporters. We do not always understand the perspective of the officers involved in those stories..." (Click title)
(Caddie Nath)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
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